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Ottawa History Hub

Ottawa History Hub

By: Brendan Ray
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This podcast looks at the history of the city of Ottawa Ontario, since the last ice age to modern day! Visit our website at ottawahistoryhub.com.

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Episodes
  • Introduction

    Introduction
    Oct 1 2025

    This is the introduction to the Ottawa History Hub Podcast. I introduce the city and give some of the planned structure to the podcast going forward.
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    7 mins
  • The Champlain Sea

    The Champlain Sea
    Oct 27 2025

    Before Ottawa was Ottawa, it was a forest, and before it was a forest, it was under 80m of water as an extension of the Atlantic Ocean. Whales, seals, walrus and other marine animals called it home. This is what Ottawa was like 115,000 years ago. The Champlain Sea stretched across the Saint Laurence and Ottawa River Valleys, before the glaciers melted and the seabed rose to the surface.
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    13 mins
  • The Algonquin

    The Algonquin
    Nov 3 2025

    This episode introduces the Algonquin, an Anishinaabe people who've inhabited the Ottawa area for more than two thousand years. It includes elements of their language (Anishinaabemowin), religion (Midewiwin), and relationships with other Anishinaabe people (Ojibwe,Montagnais-Innu, and Odawa), as well as allied or rival Iroquoian peoples (Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat).

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    21 mins
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